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UK
/ɪɹˈɛlɪvəns/
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[ US /ˌɪˈɹɛɫəvəns/ ]
[ US /ˌɪˈɹɛɫəvəns/ ]
NOUN
- the lack of a relation of something to the matter at hand
How To Use irrelevance In A Sentence
- This is one race in which betting is close to being an irrelevance. Times, Sunday Times
- September 13th, 2009 at 5: 05 am computerist: This irrelevance blows UCD through the roof simply from the fact that these organisms are each carriers of prescribed "blueprint" information slowly but surely waiting for their next "release" state. Behe, Common Descent, & UD
- But you don't take the time and space in a mass-circulation paper to repeatedly bash an irrelevance.
- Pouring out a remarkably viscous mixture of irrelevance and self-gratulatory dimestore rhetoric, the racist National Post blogger "Raphael Alexander" (not his real name) takes a poke at me for my remarks about Michael Coren yesterday. Archive 2009-04-01
- Many of these problems may simply fade into irrelevance when the new rules come into force.
- In such an atmosphere, the idea of legal safeguards for people accused of abuse becomes almost an irrelevance.
- Screw the native born stuff — given the right set of exigencies, that is one quick SCOTUS decision away from irrelevance? Cheeseburger Gothic » And now, Gentlemen, down to business.
- Without taking this risk, the potential for our prophetic communication role to fall into the abyss of irrelevance is very great.
- Missile defence has a political momentum that makes a supposedly awkward question such as whether it really works pale almost into irrelevance.
- This is ironic, given all the rhetoric about the incompetence and irrelevance of the public sector.